stadium ambition

Chapter 35 Champion Team Strength
On the afternoon of the [-]th, the basketball hall.

The match between Muqiao High School and Adishia High School is about to take place. Many fans in school uniforms line up to enter the arena, but more than 1000 seats are already packed. They can only stand in the aisle of the stands or stay on the sidelines to watch.

There are several reporters around the stadium. They came to report the opening game of the league. Some of them came from super-big TV stations like ESPN and Fox Sports, while the local TV stations were preparing to record and broadcast.

Su Yang and his teammates stood in the half court and warmed up their shots. The other side of the court was empty. The Adesia High School players finished their warm-up early and returned to the locker room for a rest.

"There are a lot of cheerleaders today, we have to fight hard..." Gay held the basketball in his right hand, showing no signs of continuing to warm up, his eyes were fixed on a blonde girl on the sidelines, and he almost forgot to breathe.

All the teammates shook their heads, and Ron threw the ball at Guy, reminding him to keep warming up.

With a flash of thought, Su Yang raised his head and glanced at the northeast corner of the stadium, and saw Lu Rulan wearing a red No. 3 jersey with the letters 'shohoku' written on it, which should mean Xiangbei High School, and it seemed to be the same jersey as Akagi Haruko.

Maybe it was a coincidence, Lu Rulan just happened to look over, winked and smiled at him, and clenched his fists to cheer him up.

"Why only hit me, the boss is also looking at his girlfriend!" Guy shouted loudly, afraid that others would not hear, and winked at Ron and the others, instantly causing many people to turn their heads to see what happened.

Ron was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "You said the female student in the red jersey over there is Su Yang's girlfriend?"

The other teammates followed suit knowingly, implying or emphasizing that Su Yang and Lu Rulan have a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.

Su Yang waved his hands hurriedly: "Okay, you are too embarrassed, where did you learn this?"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the northeast corner and saw Lu Rulan was smiling and playing with his friends.

Ron lowered his volume: "Isn't this a crucial step for you? I see that you two have been close for almost a month, and it seems that they are just good friends. Could it be that you have to go through the process first when you fall in love in your country?"

"No, don't worry about it." Su Yang waved his hand and walked away, practicing long-range shots from the three-point position.

The half-hour warm-up time ran out in a blink of an eye, the announcer reminded the relevant personnel to prepare, and the pre-match ceremony began.

The first is the introduction of away players and coaches. Harden led the team to run out of the away locker room. Boos immediately erupted in the arena, but Harden didn't care about it. Too small to hear.

The fans at the scene ignored it, Harden shrugged slightly, and walked to the bench with a bored look.

Adishia High School head coach Scott Pera also came out with the team. He is Harden's mentor. He once made Harden give up entering UCLA and chose to follow him to join Arizona State University. The great influence can be seen.

The introduction of the players of the visiting team was completed quickly, and the cheerleaders entered the venue and performed dances to show their welcome.

After the hasty performance, the home team's player appearance ceremony began. Ron ran out first, and cheers rang out in the arena. Tommy and Brownie followed closely behind. The cheers reached their peak.

The league management personnel finally confirmed all the pre-match work, and then announced that the game can be held normally.

The referee blows his whistle and the players of both teams enter the pitch.

In terms of lineup, point guard Ron vs. Glasser, shooting guard Su Yang vs. Harden, small forward Tommy vs. Jackman, power forward Brownie vs. Hughes, center Taylor vs. Mayer. A cut, like a cross-level duel.

Su Yang and Harden stood side by side at the bottom left of the center circle, and the reporters on the scene took photos of them.

Harden suddenly said: "I heard DeRozan say that many of your technical moves are imitating Kobe. Why didn't you use them in the heads-up? Was it because I was too strong that you were seriously lacking in confidence at that time, and there was only one move left?" Sudden stop?"

Su Yang chuckled: "Your sneakers are pretty good-looking, you must keep this level in the future, remember."

Harden was wearing a pair of blue Kobe Bryant fourth-generation signature sneakers. The overall look was aggressive and dynamic. It was at least ten times better than the Harden version of Adidas signature sneakers that Su Yang had seen.

"Of course! My personal aesthetics have always been unique!" Harden said confidently.

"This, I believe it..."

Su Yang instantly thought of the GIF of 'Harden staring at the spicy chicken with glowing eyes and clapping his hands with emotion'.

Harden still wanted to blow the game, but the referee held the ball and came to the middle circle, gesturing left and right to explain the precautions.

The basketball was lifted into the air, and Taylor and Mayer jumped almost at the same time, but the blue flag flew directly to Adishia High School.

Taylor didn't touch the basketball at all, and the disadvantage of height and wingspan was too obvious, so Mu Qiao quickly retreated.

The audience chanted defense in unison, Glasser took the ball to the top of the arc, turned and threw it to the left wing.

Seeing that Harden was holding the ball, Su Yang approached close to him, but before he lowered his center of gravity, Harden lobbed the ball inside.

Su Yang turned his head sideways and caught a glimpse of Hughes catching the ball with his back, holding his hands high and waiting for his teammates to move.

At the same time, Harden ran to the top of the arc and formed an off-ball screen with the oncoming Glasser.

Su Yang dodged around the wall and chased Harden again, but Harden showed no sign of being ready to catch the ball.

The sound of the basketball hitting the floor sounded, and Su Yang turned his head again, just in time to see Hughes holding the basketball high and starting it.

Without any complex singles technical moves, and without any complex off-the-ball movement to cooperate with it, Hughes relied on his height and weight advantages to forcefully rush from the elbow area to the basket, defend against Brownie, and easily take off and release the basket.

The basketball hit the basket and was caught, 0 to 2.

Offensive and defensive transition, Mu Qiao kicked off the baseline from high school.

Ron received the ball and rushed forward quickly, gestured at the center line, and asked for an inside cut tactic.

The whole team responded and cooperated. Taylor mentioned that he stood on the right elbow, and Su Yang was stuck sideways on the left sideline.

Ron reached the top of the key and immediately passed the ball to Taylor, while Bronny ran to the left sideline to set up the wall.

With the help of cover, Su Yang threw off Harden, strode towards the top of the arc, and ran head-to-head with Ron.

Harden and Glasser set aside in advance to deal with off-ball screens, which can be described as a tacit understanding.

But Ron feinted, turned his hips sideways and rushed to the left elbow, setting up a wall to cover Brownie.

"Hughes, the man looking at you, he wants to cut inside and attack the basket." Coach Pella shouted to remind him from the sidelines, seeing through Muqiao High School's offensive tactics in advance. Pressing to interfere with the pass.

"Damn it, is this the strength of the championship team?" Su Yang was a little shocked. The coach of Adishia High School is familiar with all kinds of tactics, and the execution ability of the players is also very efficient. Compared with the previous field matchup, it is at least three times stronger. .

Feeling shocked, Su Yang strode to the top of the arc, bent down and reached out to catch Taylor's pass.

Brownie was not idle either, and wisely turned around to set up a wall to block Glasser and provide cover for Ron.

The inside cut is the core of the tactics. As for who is responsible for the inside cut layup, it is not that important.

Seeing that Ron successfully got rid of the defense and rushed to the basket, Su Yang stepped forward and pretended to break through. After attracting the attention of the defense, he moved towards the reasonable collision zone position, hit the ground vigorously and passed the ball, and sent it to Ron accurately, as if with GPS positioning .

As soon as Ron picked up the basketball, Mayer raised his hands high, after all, like covering the sky.

This is the value of the existence of a big center, which can greatly interfere with the line of sight when blocking people.

Su Yang couldn't see Ron's figure at all, and Taylor also turned to look for it. Fortunately, Ron reacted quickly enough, stopped and turned around to pass the ball out, but just as Taylor received it, he was blocked by Glasser, forcing him It is easy to get offensive fouls.

Seeing this situation, Su Yang yelled loudly, Taylor turned around and passed the ball, and then went up to the wall to cover.

Harden chose to go around the wall to intercept, Su Yang took advantage of the situation to stop and jump, and raised his hand to score a three-pointer.

The basketball flew over Glasser's head, hit the rim with a thud, bounced twice and landed in the net.

Cheers erupted in the arena, and Muqiao High School started smoothly, leading 3-2.

Su Yang turned around and retreated, just in time to hear the commentator chanting: "This is a game where physical talent and basketball skills collide fiercely. The players from Adesia High School are physically stronger, but Mu Qiao High School has a subtle coordination."

Su Yang sighed: The talent on the opposite side is so strong that ordinary people can't find its subtle cooperation, and it is worthy of being a champion team.

(End of this chapter)